Follow up: Maen Khalil
Manchester City, the champion of England, continued its strong start in the group stage of the Champions League in football, by beating Borussia Dortmund 2-1, following a wonderful goal from its Norwegian star Haaland, made Spanish coach Pep Guardiola say that he reminds him of what the Dutch bird Johan Cruyff did. 49 years ago.
City escaped a loss at home following Englishman Judd Bellingham opened the scoring for Dortmund (56), before the English champions returned from afar with goals from John Stones (80) and Halland (84).
Haaland scored his flying goal, and the Norwegian star said regarding him: It was a beautiful and special goal. I scored a similar goal when I was playing for Dortmund.
Johan Cruyff scored a similar goal when he was playing for Barcelona, once morest Atletico in 1973.
Guardiola said following the match: “People who know me, they know very well Cruyff’s impact in my life as a person and as a coach, several years ago he scored a goal at the Camp Nou once morest Atletico Madrid, and he was close to Haaland’s goal, and the moment Haaland scored, I felt Cruyff in front of me, it was a similar goal.
Cruyff’s goal once morest Atletico is one of the immortal goals in the “Flying Dutchman” career, and last July FC Barcelona sold his first work in the world of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), inspired by Cruyff’s goal, for 693,000 dollars. .
The first work of this kind was titled Somehow, Khaled.
Why did Guardiola remember Cruyff’s inspiration after Haaland’s flying goal?
